Palladian Villas of the Veneto

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City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas of the Veneto¹
UNESCO World Heritage Site

State Party	Italy
Type	Cultural
Criteria	i, ii
Identification	#712
Region2	Europe and North America
Inscription History
Formal Inscription:	1994 18th WH Committee Session
Extension/s	1996
WH link:	http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/712
1 Name as officially inscribed on the WH List 2 As classified officially by UNESCO

The City centre of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas of the Veneto are a cluster of works by Andrea Palladio and his students which were inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1994 and expanded two years later.

Many of the families for whom Palladio designed villas also owned a town palazzo. The term villa was always used to describe the country house distinguishing them from the family Palazzo which was usually in town. In most cases the family coupled their surname with the Palazzo or Villa title, hence confusingly there is both a Villa and a Palazzo Chiericati, just as there is a Palazzo Foscari in Venice and a Villa Foscari in the [1] in the Veneto.

Besides from the historic centre of Vicenza, the site includes the following villas:

• Villa Angarano, Bassano del Grappa
• Villa Badoer, Fratta Polesine
• Villa Barbaro, Maser
• Villa Caldogno, Caldogno
• Villa Capra "La Rotonda", Vicenza
• Villa Chiericati, Grumolo delle Abbadesse
• Villa Cornaro, Piombino Dese
  

  

  The Palazzo Chiericati Palladio designed this and also the Chiericati family's country retreat the Villa Chiericati
• Villa Emo, Vedelago
• Villa Forni Cerato, Montecchio Precalcino
• Villa Foscari, Mira
• Villa Gazzotti Grimani, Vicenza
• Villa Godi, Lonedo di Lugo Vicentino
• Villa Piovene, Lugo Vicentino
• Villa Pisani, Bagnolo di Lonigo
• Villa Pisani Montagnana
• Villa Poiana, Poiana Maggiore
• Villa Saraceno, Agugliaro
• Villa Serego, San Pietro in Cariano
• Villa Thiene, Quinto Vicentino
• Villa Trissino, Sarego
• Villa Trissino, Vicenza
• Villa Valmarana, Bolzano Vicentino
• Villa Valmarana, Monticello Conte Otto
• Villa Zeno, Cessalto

[edit] External links

• Palladio and the Veneto

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